Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

carnun writes "New Scientist is reporting on the design of a new skull cap control mechanism that could lead to the supplanting of implanted electrodes for controlling wheel chairs. The new non-invasive method has been used to control a simple wheeled robots and could have lots of psychological benefits for quadruplegics."

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Help - I want to get off

[henrygb]

At the moment the user can choose between three different commands: for example, "turn left", "turn right" and "move forward".

"Stop" might be a useful upgrade.